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Song of Solomon
Tony Morrison
Topic 1
Mariely Morales
AP Literature
Mr. Amoroso
PD. 3
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You may look and/or feel younger or even older than your age but there has always been this idea that if someone is a certain age they should act their age. This idea that as you grow older you become mature. In the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Macon Dead III, is an example of this idea that some people have not always being true. Macon Dead III personally and socially “came of age” as he finds his way through different life experiences.
The novel begins with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Agent, Robert Smith, who promises to fly from the Mercy Hospital, also known as No Mercy Hospital because no blacks were admitted. As …show more content…
Milkman grows older and at the age of “four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier- that only birds and airplanes could fly- he lost all interest in himself.”(Morrison 9). This first scene of the novel sparks Milkman coming of age, as he is unable to fly feeling lost and lacking of personality.
At the age of twelve, Milkman meets Guitar Bains, who was also in the crowd that witnessed Robert Smith about to fly off the roof of the hospital. He tells Milkman that he knows of Pilate Dead, Milkman’s father’s sister. His father, a man in the middle-class that cares about his wealth and hasn’t been in contact with his sister. Macon Dead II has always told Milkman to never go to her house but one day, Guitar and Milkman went. Pilate telling Milkman how her and her brother, saw their father’s ghost sitting on a stump but before she could even finish the story, Pilate’s granddaughter Hagar walks in and Milkman is infatuated with “no need to see her
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face; he had already fallen in love with her behind” (Morrison 43). Milkman starts to work for his father allowing him to spend more time with Guitar as there able to become closer. It …show more content…
Solomon tells him that his friend said “to tell you your day was sure coming or your day . . . something like that . . . you day is here.”(Morrison 262). Milkman realizes that he’s talking about Guitar and wondered why he was there and if he was okay.
Stepping out of the store, he sees women that remind him of Pilate because of the way there
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dressed and wondered if she too dressed that way. This begins to show Milkman's social awareness in his life and him seeing pilate as the women she is. While hunting with a few guys he had just met, Milkman thinks to himself how “He had come here to find traces of Pilate’s journey, to find relatives she might have visited, to find anything he could that would either lead him to the gold or convince him that it no longer existed. How had he got himself involved in a hunt, involved in a knife-and-broken-bottle fight in the first place? Ignorance, he thought, and vanity.”(Morrison 275-276). Realizing all the thing he has taken for granted and how he has treated the people who love him. His thoughts are interrupted when Guitar tries to kill him by choking him with a wire, saying “Your Day has come.”(Morrison 279). That’s when
Song of Solomon
Tony Morrison
Topic 1
Mariely Morales
AP Literature
Mr. Amoroso
PD. 3
Morales
You may look and/or feel younger or even older than your age but there has always been this idea that if someone is a certain age they should act their age. This idea that as you grow older you become mature. In the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Macon Dead III, is an example of this idea that some people have not always being true. Macon Dead III personally and socially “came of age” as he finds his way through different life experiences.
The novel begins with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Agent, Robert Smith, who promises to fly from the Mercy Hospital, also known as No Mercy Hospital because no blacks were admitted. As …show more content…
Milkman grows older and at the age of “four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier- that only birds and airplanes could fly- he lost all interest in himself.”(Morrison 9). This first scene of the novel sparks Milkman coming of age, as he is unable to fly feeling lost and lacking of personality.
At the age of twelve, Milkman meets Guitar Bains, who was also in the crowd that witnessed Robert Smith about to fly off the roof of the hospital. He tells Milkman that he knows of Pilate Dead, Milkman’s father’s sister. His father, a man in the middle-class that cares about his wealth and hasn’t been in contact with his sister. Macon Dead II has always told Milkman to never go to her house but one day, Guitar and Milkman went. Pilate telling Milkman how her and her brother, saw their father’s ghost sitting on a stump but before she could even finish the story, Pilate’s granddaughter Hagar walks in and Milkman is infatuated with “no need to see her
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face; he had already fallen in love with her behind” (Morrison 43). Milkman starts to work for his father allowing him to spend more time with Guitar as there able to become closer. It …show more content…
Solomon tells him that his friend said “to tell you your day was sure coming or your day . . . something like that . . . you day is here.”(Morrison 262). Milkman realizes that he’s talking about Guitar and wondered why he was there and if he was okay.
Stepping out of the store, he sees women that remind him of Pilate because of the way there
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dressed and wondered if she too dressed that way. This begins to show Milkman's social awareness in his life and him seeing pilate as the women she is. While hunting with a few guys he had just met, Milkman thinks to himself how “He had come here to find traces of Pilate’s journey, to find relatives she might have visited, to find anything he could that would either lead him to the gold or convince him that it no longer existed. How had he got himself involved in a hunt, involved in a knife-and-broken-bottle fight in the first place? Ignorance, he thought, and vanity.”(Morrison 275-276). Realizing all the thing he has taken for granted and how he has treated the people who love him. His thoughts are interrupted when Guitar tries to kill him by choking him with a wire, saying “Your Day has come.”(Morrison 279). That’s when